Bill Text: TX HB1699 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District to impose certain fees.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB1699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1699-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1699 |
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relating to the authority of the Evergreen Underground Water | ||
Conservation District to impose certain fees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 197, Acts of the 59th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 1965, is amended by adding Section 22A to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 22A. FEES. (a) The Board may impose: | ||
(1) a combined production and export fee on water | ||
exported from the District in an amount not to exceed 20 cents for | ||
each thousand gallons of water exported from the District; and | ||
(2) other fees as authorized by Chapter 36, Water | ||
Code. | ||
(b) A fee collected under Subsection (a)(1) of this section | ||
may only be used: | ||
(1) to maintain the operability of wells significantly | ||
affected by groundwater export projects; and | ||
(2) as authorized by Section 36.122(l), Water Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1699 was passed by the House on April | ||
11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 118, Nays 26, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1699 on May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 8, | ||
3 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1699 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |